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Contributed TIFF Software
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Contributed TIFF Software
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The <B>contrib</B> directory has contributed software that
uses the TIFF library or which is associated with the library
(typically glue and guidance for ports to non-UNIX platforms, or tools that
aren't directly TIFF related).

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<B>contrib/vms</B>
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scripts and files from Karsten Spang for building
		the library and tools under VMS
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<B>contrib/dbs</B>
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various tools from Dan & Chris Sears, including a simple X-based viewer
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<B>contrib/ras</B>
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two programs by Patrick Naughton for converting
		between Sun rasterfile format and TIFF (these
		require <TT>libpixrect.a</TT>, as opposed to the one in
		tools that doesn't)
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<B>contrib/mac-mpw</B><br>
<B>contrib/mac-cw</B>
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scripts and files from Niles Ritter for building
the library and tools under Macintosh/MPW C and
code warrior.
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<B>contrib/acorn</B>
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scripts and files from Peter Greenham for building
		the library and tools on an Acorn RISC OS system.
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<B>contrib/win32</B>
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scripts and files from Scott Wagner for building
the library under Windows NT and Windows 95. (The makefile.vc in the
libtiff/libtiff directory may be sufficient for most users.)
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<B>contrib/win_dib</B>
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two separate implementations of TIFF to DIB code suitable for any Win32 
platform.  Contributed by Mark James, and Philippe Tenenhaus.
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<B>contrib/ojpeg</B>
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Patch for IJG JPEG library related to support for some Old JPEG in TIFF files.
Contributed by Scott Marovich.
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<B>contrib/dosdjgpp</B>
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scripts and files from Alexander Lehmann for building
		the library under MSDOS with the DJGPP v2 compiler.
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<B>contrib/tags</B>
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scripts and files from Niles Ritter for adding private
         tag support at runtime, without changing libtiff.
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<B>contrib/mfs</B>
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code from Mike Johnson to read+write images in memory
without modifying the library
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<B>contrib/pds</B>
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various routines from Conrad Poelman; a TIFF image iterator and
   code to support ``private sub-directories''
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<B>contrib/iptcutil</B>
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A utility by <A HREF=mailto:billr@corbis.com>Bill Radcliffe</a> to
convert an extracted IPTC Newsphoto caption from a binary blob to
ASCII text, and vice versa. IPTC binary blobs can be extracted from
images via the <A
HREF=http://www.ImageMagick.org/>ImageMagick</a> convert(1)
utility.


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<B>contrib/addtiffo</B>
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A utility (and supporting subroutine) for building
one or more reduce resolution
overviews to an existing TIFF file.  Supplied by 
<a href="http://pobox.com/~warmerdam">Frank Warmerdam</a>.

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<B>contrib/stream</B>
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A class (TiffStream) for accessing TIFF files through a C++ stream 
interface.   Supplied by <a href="mailto:avi@shutterfly.com">Avi Bleiweiss</a>.

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Questions regarding these packages are usually best directed toward
their authors. 

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Last updated: $Date: 2016-09-25 20:05:44 $

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